Andreas Stieger wrote:
Hi,
Am Freitag, 29. August 2008 17:55:07 schrieb Michael Loeffler:
as discussed in a former project meeting we should discuss how we handle KDE in openSUSE 11.1. To avoid any misunderstanding we will offer on the DVD still KDE and Gnome. It just the question which or how many KDE's ;-)
I think it would be okay to make the DVD KDE4 only because of the space constraints. Users who want to stay on KDE3 could get it from the repositories or stay on the 11.0 altogether. It's a great release for KDE3 so there's less reason to upgrade. (package management, I'm looking at you!)
We should really focus on the quality and integration of KDE4. I'm saying that as a hardcore KDE3 user. Note that for 11.1 we have a shorter development cycle of six months. We should delever an excellently packaged and thouroughly tested KDE4 with KDE3 in maintainance mode.
regards, Andreas
I agree 100% with Andreas' suggestions, and would like to add to the 'quality and integration' focus the extra area of migration. I've noticed that the current (as of last week anyway) kde4-migrate utility doesn't seem to do very much, at least not for me. An easy to use migration tool that could just ask the simple question "Do you wish to migrate your current desktop settings to KDE4", then handles kwallet, kontact and kopete (and other) settings migration to the correct KDE4 folder would be excellent. Maybe I'm an edge case, but with 8 main email accounts and a lot of rules, plus a lot of contacts in kopete organised by customer company, I would really welcome this. It might be just a case of copying files to the ~/.kde4 directory, but as of now, I don't know if that works so I'm reluctant to try it. I think it would spur the adoption of KDE4.x as a quick way of getting people to see their _real_ desktop, complete with settings and content, rather than just a test/livecd version of what they might get if they spend several hours configuring things by hand. Cheers Pete --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org